Chinese millennials are fed up with the 996 grind (working from 9 AM until 9 PM, 6 days a week) and are going remote. Office workers across the country are [ … ]
NüProfile: Ysabelle Cheung on poetry, diaspora and writing from the margins
BY MEGAN CATTEL Poetry is very hit or miss for me (as a prose writer.) Sometimes the words roll right past me, and sometimes they leap off the page and [ … ]
Event Recap: Not even an incoming blizzard stopped the launch of NüVoices Canada
BY SOLARINA HO Nothing like a quintessential blast of Canadian weather – complete with a rare winter lightning show (a.k.a. “thundersnow“) over Lake Ontario followed by a blizzard – to [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #95: Jan Wong on her Legendary Journalism Career
This week, NüVoices host and co-founder Joanna Chiu speaks to Canadian journalist and author Jan Wong. Jan was one of very few foreigners able to travel to China during the [ … ]
NüVoices Book Picks for Asian Heritage Month
Happy Asian Heritage Month! To celebrate, NüVoices is partnering with leading indie publisher House of Anansi to recommend some very good books by authors of Asian heritage. 10% of Anansi’s [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #94: A Conversation with Yaxue Cao, founder of ChinaChange.org
This week, Yaxue Cao, the founder and editor of ChinaChange.org, joins the NüVoices podcast. ChinaChange.org is an English-language website devoted to news and commentary related to civil society, rule of law, and [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #93: What the West Gets Wrong about TikTok with Zeyi Yang
Today, we have a special guest on the podcast (and a worthy NüVoices ally) MIT Tech Review reporter, Zeyi Yang! Together with co-hosts Megan Cattel and Solarina Ho, Zeyi talks [ … ]
RECAP: Community Reading in NYC with Accent Society
This recap was written by Megan Cattel “New York ACTUALLY HAS 12 SEASONS” is a meme that has only gotten more popular with age. Seasons do not gracefully transition in [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #92: The World of Chinese Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Translation with Emily Xueni Jin
This week, host Megan Cattel speaks to essayist and science fiction translator, Emily Xueni Jin, on the art of translation and the rise of Chinese science fiction. During the course [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #91: Tania Branigan on her book, Red Memory, and the lasting impact of China’s Cultural Revolution
Trigger warning: This episode briefly mentions suicide at 01:15 and 15:45. This week, host Lijia Zhang speaks to Tania Branigan, current Foreign Leader Writer and former China Correspondent at The Guardian. [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #90: A Conversation with Lindsay Wong, author of Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality & The Woo-Woo
A Ming Dynasty courtesan who transforms into a zombie. A family of ghosts wreaking havoc on a local hot spring. Elite Hong Kong bankers who are secretly serial killers. Welcome [ … ]
Here Are 12 Feminist Books to Read from 20th Century China
BY EMILY MATSON China’s feminist activism has blossomed against all odds to become one of the country’s most dynamic social movements. However, this phenomenon didn’t emerge from a vacuum. Rather, [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #89: A Conversation with Liza Lin on Digital Surveillance in China
“When we first started writing the book in 2017, 2018, I would probably characterize Xinjiang as the true, perfect surveillance state … Now I think that you can apply that [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #88: The End of China’s Zero-Covid Policy with Dr. Jennifer Bouey
Note: As current events regarding Covid are rapidly changing, we want to acknowledge this episode was recorded in early January 2023. The text below is a paraphrased version of host [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #87: Our 2022 Year-End Recap! A Discussion with the NüVoices Podcast Team
As 2022 draws to a close, so must this season of the NüVoices podcast. But fear not! Before we sign off for a winter hiatus, we wanted to bring together [ … ]
Voices: Chinese protesters in Shanghai and London reflect on anti-lockdown demonstrations
BY JESSIE LAU After hundreds took part in stunning mass protests across China last month to express their anger towards Covid-19 restrictions and the Chinese Communist Party, the government this [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #86: Angela Hui about her memoir, Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter
Growing up in the Welsh countryside and working at her family’s Chinese takeaway was anything but peaceful, writes Angela Hui in her memoir, Takeaway. With her parents at the helm, [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #85: Becoming a Stand-up Comedian with He Huang
“Hello everyone, my name is He. It’s spelled as H-E. Yes, it is my name, not my pronoun.” Last month, Sydney-based comedian He Huang went viral with her 4-minute Australia’s [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #84: A Conversation with Sue-Lin Wong on ‘The Prince’ podcast & China’s 20th Party Congress
“People have been asking me…what do people need to know about Xi Jinping? And over the course of this podcast, I learned he really fears chaos and he’s obsessed with [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #83: A Map for the Missing, a Conversation with Belinda Huijuan Tang
This week, we talk to Belinda Huijuan Tang about her sweeping and tender debut novel, A Map for the Missing, which was recently longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel [ … ]